Matthias Stuchtey – Spurwechsel
Objekte und Zeichnungen/objects and works on paper
13. Juli – 18. Juli 2015/June 13 – July 18, 2015

Vernissage/Private View: 12. Juni 2015 von 19-21 Uhr/June 12, 2015, 19-21

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We are pleased to present Spurwechsel, a solo exhibition by Matthias Stuchtey, who lives and works in Berlin. We will display a wide range of his works, from objects built of Ikea furniture and other elements (for example Kullen) to works on paper of a complex layering of wood-stain, watercolours and ink. The sculptor was born in 1961 in Münster (Nord Rhine-Westphalia). He studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Münster from where he graduated as a Masters student under Reiner Ruthenbeck. Matthias has been working for many years with various wood materials. He adopts the mindset of a researcher with regard to life, working with found material such as used furniture with history, MDF boards or brand-new interior fabrics straight from Ikea, but also with more or less valuable everyday items like orange crates and cigar boxes from which he creates new and wayward objects.

Deconstruction and construction characterise his process-like and playful artistic method, giving us an idea of what is important to him: a different perspective on life. Through construction, disassembling, cutting up panels and reassembling, for example the dresser Kullen, Matthias creates a series of new corpora, which reveal hidden, inner structures and new spaces. Values such as unity and stability are questioned, patterns of thinking and awareness are reflected.

Havanna I (1-16) is the title of a series of subtle objects made from cigar boxes. The artist transforms objects of everyday life into new entities and sculptures representing an intellectual game of edges and lines. Repeatedly, shape and structure are undergoing a renewed construction.

The angular objects and sculptures thus emerging evoke utopian cityscapes—sensitively arranged systems that afford the beholder governed glimpses through particular openings only. The objects and sculptures unfold spaces for reflection that not only provoke contemplation of urban problems and model living in the age of globalization but also take on artistic lives of their own, as sensuous-aesthetic constructions.